音节

a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word (e.g., there are two syllables in water and three in inferno).

示例:• The word 'cat' has one syllable.单词“cat”有一个音节。• She carefully pronounced each syllable of the long word.她仔细地发音了长单词的每个音节。